Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-01 | Page 7 | Life Saving Crew in Heroic Effort

thousands watched a desperate struggle to rescue the men on board a wrecked steamer near duluth duluth glnn nov 29 mine dead including the engineering crew of the boat la tho terrible result of tho wreck ot the steamer mataafa at the mouth 0 the duluth ship canal yesterday afternoon from the time of the arrival 0 the life saving crew at 5 desperate efforts were made to get a line to the boat but without avail in the presence of thousands ot people who watched tho acne breathlessly the una was fired over the chip from iba cannon three times once it caught and those on the forward end 0 the boat where it landed began to haul it in but the rocks on tha bottom cut it in two at midnight abo officials ot the company owning the boat advised to give up until daylight saying that the men of the forward part were safe enough until morning and on tho stern s end not a sign of life had been detected since shortly after dark when the storm died out somewhat athla morning the afe ufe saving crew was able to hit the boat and the work of bringing the crew ashore was begun at once in the forward end of tho boat all were safe but in abo stern anone was saved all having succumbed lo 10 a the cold and drowned in tho first boatload seven men were brought to sabre and later more choso save dare captain R F humble wallace brown farsi mate r JameaL Hatch wheelman herbert emeigli Em igli second mate george mcclue wheelman alex charles ernest dietz watchman i lee yates seaman fred saunders porter grantley Grant lcy west watchman adward colter fireman harry larson seaman louis malics seaman seaman name unknown from cheso it was learned thai noi A eign had been heard by those for i ward from the rear end sance early in the evening and the death of all there was certain they gave their names S as follows if william most chief engineer clevo 1 land second engineer claude farringer cleveland jamea early buffa 10 lo william winton ont carl careson Carf son fiur chicago henry wryght steward cleveland walter bush second cook amberst burac Fireman 4 and deck hand who shipped at names unknown